Essays Quote by T.S Eliot

“When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind…

— Yiyun Li

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell…

— Connie Willis

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

— C. S. Lewis

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the…

— Connie Willis

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

“Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them?…

— Carrie Ryan

“And everyday I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside…

— Diane Settlefield

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

— Anonymous

“Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them?…

— Carrie Ryan

“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade,…

— James Lee Burke

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar